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A collection of 40 monthly columns that appeared on MAA Online between 2003 and 2007 about the mathematical and scientific work of the great 18th-century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler. Professor Sandifer uncovers many details that are not found in other sources by studying EulerâEUR(TM)s words in their original language.

Describes Euler’s early mathematical works - the 50 mathematical articles he wrote before he left St. Petersburg in 1741 to join the Academy of Frederick the Great in Berlin. These works contain some of Euler’s greatest mathematics: the Konigsburg bridge problem, his solution to the Basel problem, his first proof of the Euler-Fermat theorem. Also presented are important results that we seldom realize are due to Euler: that mixed partial deriva...

A collection of lively expository columns on the work of Euler, written by a leading scholar.